Organon (Owen)/Topics/Book 5

Chap. 1. Upon Property.
 * 1. Property assigned, either per se and always, or with reference to something, and sometimes.
 * 2. The last may be impugned in two, or four ways.
 * 3. Distinction between property per se and with reference to something.
 * 4. Also between that "always" and "sometimes."
 * 5. What is assigned with reference to another, is either always, or for the most part, property.
 * 6. Disputation generally conversant with that property which is per se, and always, and which is referred to another.
 * 7. The last to be considered from the topics of accident.

Chap. 2. Of the correct Exposition of the Property.
 * 1. What constitutes a good exposition of property, is its being more evident than its subject.
 * 2. Assignment of property is subverted if there be some name or sentence of various signification.
 * 3. Also if there is a multifarious predication of the subject.
 * 4. Also if there be frequent repetition.
 * 5. Also if that be in the property, which is common to all.
 * 6. If many properties are assigned of the same thing, without distinction.

Chap. 3. Topics connected with Property continued.
 * 1. Observe whether the thing itself is contained in its assigned property.
 * 2. Also whether the opposite to the thing itself, or what is less clear than the latter, be taken as the property.
 * 3. Also whether that is assigned, which is not always joined to the thing.
 * 4. Also whether the assigner of a present property, does not distinguish time.
 * 5. Whether what is only evident by sense, is assigned.
 * 6. Whether definition is assigned as property.
 * 7. Whether it does not necessarily consist with the very nature of a thing.

Chap. 4. Topics relative to the Question, whether the assigned be Property or not.
 * 1. The assigned is not property, if it does not concur with each individual.
 * 2. Also if the name is not verified of what the sentence is, and vice versâ.
 * 3. If the subject is assigned as the property.
 * 4. If that is assigned as a property, which the thing partakes of, as a difference.
 * 5. Or if that which is by nature prior, or posterior, to the thing itself.
 * 6. Or if the same thing be not the property of the same things, so far as they are the same.
 * 7. If of things the same in species, the property is not always specifically the same.
 * 8. If what is the property of the subject alone, be not so of it, when joined to accident and vice versâ.

Chap. 5. The same Subject continued.
 * 1. Observe whether for that which is always the property, something be assumed which is joined to the very nature of a thing.
 * 2. Whether that whose property is assigned, be predicated of some other first, or another of itself as first.
 * 3. Whether the manner and subject of the property be accurately defined.
 * 4. If the thing itself be assigned as its own property.
 * 5. Whether in those things which consist of similar parts, the property of a part, or of the whole, be laid down.

Chap. 6. Of Property from Opposites.
 * 6.1. Observe whether of opposites, the properties be opposite—of contraries, contrary.
 * 6.2. Of relatives, relative.
 * 6.3. Of habit and privation.
 * 6.4. Of affirmatives and negatives.
 * Whether things repugnant are assigned as the properties of the same thing.
 * Or whether things non-repugnant, be assigned as properties of repugnant subjects.
 * Whether the same property be assumed of things repugnant.
 * Whather of things of the same division, properties are assigned, so as not to keep the same order of division.

Chap. 7. Of Property as to Cases.
 * 7.1. Whether property is rightly assigned, is known from cases.
 * 7.2. From those of similar subsistence.
 * 7.3. From those of the same subsistence.
 * 7.4. From existence, production, and destruction.
 * 7.5. From ideas.

Chap. 8. Of Property from the More and Less.
 * 8.1. Whether property is rightly assigned, is known from things admitting degree.
 * Topic of subversion. The simply of the simply.
 * The more of the more.
 * The rather property.
 * If the more be not property.
 * 8.2. We also ascertain whether property is rightly assigned, from things of similar subsistence.
 * 1st topic of subversion.
 * 2nd
 * 3rd
 * 4th A distinction drawn.

Chap. 9. Topics upon Property as to Capacity, etc.
 * 9.1. Property subverted if assigned in capacity to what is not.
 * 9.2. Confirmed, vice versâ.
 * 9.3. Subverted if laid down in hyperbole.

